What’s New in Lightroom 5.5

Wednesday was a big day for Adobe, which made some huge announcements about the new features added to the Creative Cloud subscription. With a bit less fanfare Lightroom 5.5 was also released. You can get it here for Windows | Mac.

Creative Cloud or Standalone?

Lightroom is a funny animal in that it is available via a Creative Cloud subscription or you can just purchase a good old fashioned perpetual license for it alone. Because Lightroom exists in both spaces it won’t see the same new features that might get added into the Camera Raw plugin that is only part of the Creative Cloud subscription (a recent example is the new brush functionality added to the Graduated Filter in Camera Raw 8.5). We can only hope that these new features will make their way into the next full version of Lightroom. I should point out that while the new features are not exposed in the Lightroom interface, Lightroom would support the rendering of the new functionality if a photo edited in Camera Raw 8.5 was imported into Lightroom. That said, here is what is included in Lightroom 5.5.

New Camera Support

The most anticipated aspect of these updates is the inclusion of new camera raw formats. Lightroom 5.5 adds support for the following cameras:

Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II

Fujifilm FinePix S1

Nikon 1 J4

Nikon 1 S2

Nikon 1 V3

Olympus OM-D E-M10

Panasonic DMC-GH4

Pentax 645Z

Samsung NX3000

Sony DSC-RX100 III

Sony A7S (ILCE-7S)

Sony Alpha SLT-A77 II (ILCA-77M2)

New Tethered Support

In addition, Lightroom 5.5 now supports the following cameras for tethered shooting:

Canon T5

Nikon DF

Nikon D610

Nikon D5300

New Lens Support

Support for the following lenses was also added:

Canon Mount

Sigma 50m F1.4 DG HSM A014

Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 Dill VC PZD MACRO B0163

Fujifilm Mount:

Fujifilm Tele Conversion Lens TCL-X100

Nikon Mount:

Nikon 1 NIKKOR VR 10-30mm f3.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR

Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014

Sigma 18-200 F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Tamron 16-300mm F3.5-6.3 Dill VC PZD MACRO B016N

Tamron SP 150-600mm F5-6.3 Di VC USD A011N

Pentax Mount:

Sigma 30mm F.14 DC HSM A013

Sigma Mount:

Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM A014

Sigma 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Sony Alpha Mount

Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC HSM A013

Sony Alpha 28-75mm F2.8 SAM

What’s Been Fixed?

And finally, a number of bugs have been squashed. Fuji X-T1 users should pay special attention:

Manual slideshows sometimes did not advance to the next slide as expected.

Aspect ratio changed when modifying the crop rectangle and when rotating the crop

Image flips between portrait and landscape after switching orientation while shooting tethered with Leica S cameras.

Fixed issue with Fujifilm X-T1 raw images appearing too bright at high ISO settings when using Dynamic Range 200% and 400%. Unfortunately, this fix may affect the appearance of existing images captured with this combination of settings. It is recommended that you (1) purge the Camera Raw cache via the Preferences dialog, and (2) review images shot at ISO settings higher than 1600 for unexpected brightness changes.

Fixed issue with reading lossless compressed Nikon raw files (NEF files) from the camera models listed below. Previously, some images could be read but wouldappear as random noise, whereas attempting to open others would result in an error dialog. You will need to purge your Camera Raw cache via the Preferences dialog.

Nikon D1

Nikon D1H

Nikon D1X

Nikon D2H

Nikon D2Hs

Nikon D2X

Nikon D2Xs

Nikon D100

Nikon D200

How to Get the Download

To get the new download just launch your Adobe Creative Cloud app or to manually download Lightroom 5.5: Windows | Mac.

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